Developing countries need to transition to a low-carbon transport sector now to avoid locking themselves into an unsustainable and costly future, a new report by the World Bank warns. According to Turning...

Floods are the most frequent among all natural disasters, causing widespread devastation, economic damages and loss of human lives.The East Asia and Pacific region is particularly vulnerable: In the past...

Washington DC, February 13, 2012 — For many people living in East Asia, floods are a fact of life. “We just accept it because we know this area is always flooded,” says Ilah, a resident of Kampung Melayu,...

June 26, 2009—It took the world hundreds of years to build today’s urban space of 400,000 square kilometers of cities. It will take only about another 30 years to build that same amount of urban space...